Richard Neal wrote:
I agree
One nice feature Mandriva has is when you update the kernel and reboot,
it runs a program to reinstall the nvidia/ati driver for the new kernel.
So whats needed is for ubuntu to get a init script that checks to see if
the kernel has the nvidia/ati driver installed, if not install it, if
that fails edit the xorg.conf file and change nvidia to nv.
You "only" install the extra init script if the nvidia/ati driver is
installed (add it to the dependencies for the driver package).
This is such a simple thing in reality and I'm surprised Ubuntu hasn't
picked up on this yet.
Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle
nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades.
I have done many Ubuntu kernel upgrades with nvidia drivers installed,
no problems at all.
All you need is the nvidia-glx package which does the rest.
Automatix and EasyUbuntu simply apt-get the nvidia-glx packages just as
a user would do manually.
No need to install or even think about any scripts. And I don't want
something to edit my config's without asking first, I don't want it to
mess up my twinview setup or anything else for that matter. Maybe it
would be easier if Mandriva simply had a package that you could urpmi
the same as Ubuntu.
*shrugs*
Oh well.
Tuxta
PS. Ubuntu rox (not to say Mandriva doesn't of course)
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